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A wonderful set of players that played amazing football. A sad waste.

Thats awful, and if the news was deliberately kept from Lua Lua then thats absolutely appalling.

Any chance of including Litmanen in that list. Can you imagine what Rafa could do with Jari Litmanen upfront, it would be a thing of beauty.

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It was when Sissoko was running with the ball at his feet in the first half. Must have gone maybe 15-20 yards or so, and the ball was just bouncing around all over the place. Ok Momo's control at times is a little wayward, but its not that bad.

"And quite interestingly Mark, every single game up to and including this one have been started from the center spot, which I'm sure you'll agree is a quite phenomenal record."

I can just see the opening game now. Germany V Costa Rica, with Motson commentating. "And here we are now, kicking off the World Cup, oh and ROOOONNNNEEEYYYYY is in the stands watching."

Yes we need reinforcements upfront and we're not scoring enough goals, but look at it this way. I think it was during the United game, Martin Tyler pointed out that our team plus Ruud and Rooney would be a League winning 11, and he's right. We've got an excellent team now, up to our strikeforce, who are doing a job, but could all do better. Strikers are probably the most expensive players to try and acquire, if you don't score goals you don't win games, and goals cost money. Now in the summer, I expect the vast majority of our cash will go on buying strikers because we're not in bad shape at all else where. We are very very close to having an excellent starting 11. We need a right winger, and we need more goals. We're still in the FA Cup, and the European Cup (a competition that really suits our strikers and our method of playing), and can still finish 2nd in the league. Theres the potential there for a nice amount of money come the end of the season. We know we're not scoring enough, Rafa knows it, our strikers surely know it. Come the summer things will undoubtedly change, so whilst there's plenty of reasons to feel depressed and disappointed with recent results, the season isn't over yet, and next season will be very different.

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I hope so.

I remember reading an interview with him in the last 6 months or so, where he said we offered him an even bigger contract the nBarca but he wanted to stay in Spain.

Forward planning like that is why he's England manager and getting paid £5m a year, and we're not. But just for arguments sake, I'll try some mindreading. Robinson Neville Cole Terry Ferdinand Beckahm Cole Gerrard Lampard Owen Rooney

Ah those knowledgable, football mad Geordies. On MOTD they've just done a quick snippet of asking the Newcastle fans who they'd like back, and what was the answer most of them gave...? Kevin Keegan. Priceless.

Losing 4-0 at home to Villa. Thats not just plumbing new depths, another couple of minutes and Steve Mclaren is going to be shaking hands with the King of the Morloks.

It was at Ibrox as well, so thats good for a few more chuckles.

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Knocked out of the cup 3-0 by Hibs.

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Beautiful

I wonder how long this has been coming or building up. I always thought it was slightly strange that Wenger didn't make Campbell captain rather then Henry. At the time I thought it was an attempt to make Henry sign his contract, and possibly a signal that Campbell wasn't going to be playing regularly, but it could have had something to do with his state of mind as well. Sadly the only thing we can be fairly certain of, is that the gutter press will do their very upmost to destroy him and his career in the name of "public interest".